Elementary
[elɪ'ment(ə)rɪ] or [,ɛlɪ'mɛntri]
Definition
(adj.) easy and not involved or complicated; 'an elementary problem in statistics'; 'elementary, my dear Watson'; 'a simple game'; 'found an uncomplicated solution to the problem' .
(adj.) of or being the essential or basic part; 'an elementary need for love and nurturing' .
(adj.) of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education; 'the elementary grades'; 'elementary teachers' .
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Definition
(a.) Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.
(a.) Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.
(a.) Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Simple, uncompounded.[2]. Rudimentary, rudimental, primary.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Physical, material, natural, elementary, primary, rudimental, simple, inchoate,compo, constituent, ultimate
ANT:Immaterial, incorporeal, inpalpable, compound, collective, aggregate,developed, organized
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Examples
- Elementary, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He got a copy of Parker's School Philosophy, an elementary book on physics, and about every experiment in it he tried. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- David Reed I would like to dedicate this etext to my mother who was a elementary school teacher for more years than I can remember. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was elementary botany. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His only schooling was received in an elementary insti tution in Oxfordshire. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There is nothing in the elementary study of botany which cannot be introduced in a vital way in connection with caring for the growth of seeds. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But is has filtered through into elementary education and largely controls its processes and aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The question asked and answered by Dalton was, what is the relative weight of the atoms composing the elementary bodies? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Here we devote a section to certain elementary statements about the movement in men's religious ideas during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Watt had likewise held that water is not an element, but a compound of two elementary substances. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As yet life and its ideas were too elementary for that. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back to business, Watson. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- For the first time he perceived how elementary his own principles had always been. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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